Bacteria and the viruses that infect them are perpetually at war. Their deadly clashes push both kinds of microbes to evolve ...

Machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence, has many applications in science, from finding gravitational lenses in the distant universe to predicting virus evolution. Hubble Space Telescope ...

The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition of leading virologists connecting more than 90 Centers of Excellence and ...

The story of life’s beginnings gets stranger when you look closely at viruses. These tiny entities seem to sit at the edge of biology.

A microscopic sleight of hand is employed by the influenza virus: a discreet strategy that allows it to deceive the cells it ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. H5N1 bird flu has been making a lot of headlines since last year, and for good reason: since March 2024 this subtype of ...

Researchers have unearthed nearly 1,700 ancient virus species hidden within the glacial ice of the Himalayas. These viruses, around three-quarters of which were previously unknown to science, were ...

Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...